"In the way that Robert Altman used the city of Nashville as a prism by which to examine the American experience post-Watergate, David Byrne traveled to Texas to use the Lone Star State as a microcosm for what was happening in all 50. One of the film’s bravura segments — introduced with a title card that reads “Shopping is a Feeling” — takes Byrne’s narrator character through the shopping mall in the fictional town of Virgil, Texas (actually Dallas’s since-remodeled NorthPark Mall),"